David Millar – författare
- Häftad, Engelska, 2016
160 kr
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What is it really like to be a racer?What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? What happens to the body during a high-speed chute? What tactics must teams employ to win the day, the jersey, the grand tour? What sacrifices must a cyclist make to reach the highest levels? What is it like on the bus? In the hotels? What camaraderie is built in the confines of a team? What rivalries? How does it feel to be constantly on the road, away from loved ones, tasting one more calorie-counted hotel breakfast? David Millar offers us a unique insight into the mind of a professional cyclist during his last year before retirement. Over the course of a season on the World Tour, Millar puts us in touch with the sights, smells and sounds of the sport. This is a book about youth and age, fresh-faced excitement and hard-earned experience. It is a love letter to cycling.'Cycling has always been about a great deal more than its winners, and The Racer is quite a ride' Spectator - Häftad, Engelska, 2002
587 kr
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists is an invaluable one-stop reference book for anyone wanting a brief and accurate account of the life and work of those who created science from its very beginnings to the present day. This alphabetically organized, illustrated biographical dictionary has been thoroughly revised and updated, covering over 1,500 key scientists (157 more than in the previous edition) from 40 countries. Fields represented include physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, meteorology and technology, with special attention paid to pioneer women whose achievements and example opened the way to scientific careers for others. As well as Nobel Prizewinners, this second edition includes winners of the Fields Medal, the mathematician's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Illustrated with around 150 portraits, diagrams, maps and tables, and with special panel features, this book is a clear and accessible guide to the world's prominent scientific personalities. - Inbunden, Engelska, 2002
1 388 kr
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists is an invaluable one-stop reference book for anyone wanting a brief and accurate account of the life and work of those who created science from its very beginnings to the present day. This alphabetically organized, illustrated biographical dictionary has been thoroughly revised and updated, covering over 1,500 key scientists (157 more than in the previous edition) from 40 countries. Fields represented include physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, meteorology and technology, with special attention paid to pioneer women whose achievements and example opened the way to scientific careers for others. As well as Nobel Prizewinners, this second edition includes winners of the Fields Medal, the mathematician's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Illustrated with around 150 portraits, diagrams, maps and tables, and with special panel features, this book is a clear and accessible guide to the world's prominent scientific personalities. - Häftad, Engelska, 2015
219 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2015
227 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2016
231 kr
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
461 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2023
334 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2011
44 kr
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By his eighteenth birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-speaking Tour winner. A year later he''d realised the dream and signed a professional contract. He perhaps lived the high life a little too enthusiastically - he broke his heel in a fall from a roof after too much drink - and before long the pressure to succeed had tipped over into doping. Here, in a full and frank autobiography, David Millar recounts the story from the inside: he doped because ''cycling''s drug culture was like white noise'', and because of peer pressure. ''I doped for money and glory in order to guarantee the continuation of my status.'' Five years on from his arrest, Millar is clean and reflective, and holds nothing back in this account of his dark years. - E-bokEngelska, 2015
121 kr
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What is it really like to be a racer?What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? What happens to the body during a high-speed chute? What tactics must teams employ to win the day, the jersey, the grand tour? What sacrifices must a cyclist make to reach the highest levels? What is it like on the bus? In the hotels? What camaraderie is built in the confines of a team? What rivalries? How does it feel to be constantly on the road, away from loved ones, tasting one more calorie-counted hotel breakfast? David Millar offers us a unique insight into the mind of a professional cyclist during his last year before retirement. Over the course of a season on the World Tour, Millar puts us in touch with the sights, smells and sounds of the sport. This is a book about youth and age, fresh-faced excitement and hard-earned experience. It is a love letter to cycling.'Cycling has always been about a great deal more than its winners, and The Racer is quite a ride' Spectator - LjudbokEngelska, 2015
132 kr
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What is it really like to be a racer?What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? How does it feel to be reeled in from a solo breakaway metres from the line? What happens to the body during a high-speed chute? What tactics must teams employ to win the day, the jersey, the grand tour? How does a domestique keep going to the end of a stage once his job is done and his body exhausted? How does a time-trialist maintain his form when every muscle and sinew is screaming at him to stop? What sacrifices must a cyclist make to reach the highest levels? What is it like on the bus? In the hotels? What camaraderie is built in the confines of a team? What rivalries? How does it feel to be constantly on the road, away from loved ones, tasting one more calorie-counted hotel breakfast? David Millar offers us a unique insight into the mind of a professional cyclist during his last year before retirement. Over the course of a season on the World Tour, Millar puts us in touch with the sights, smells and sounds of the sport – the barked instructions of a road captain in a sprint chain, the silence of a solo training ride. This is a book about youth and age, fresh-faced excitement and hard-earned experience. It is a love letter to cycling.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2015
315 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2018
168 kr
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Don’t miss out on the second installment in the brand-new brain game series following Mensa’s Brilliant Brain Workouts. Here you’ll find even more puzzles, riddles, and logic games to fine-tune your skills, while simultaneously helping your mental health by improving concentration, creativity, memory, reasoning, and problem-solving skills—because taking care of your brain is just as important as the rest of your body! Mensa’s Super-Strength Mind Games is great for kids and adults alike. Try a puzzle before bed to cool down and stretch your mind muscles, or with your morning coffee to wake up your brain with an early-morning workout. The challenges within are sure to keep you as sharp and flexible as possible! Puzzles include: •Word searches•Blank-filling puzzles•Mazes•Sudoku•Riddles/short text games•Tetra drop•Story logic•And more! - Häftad, Engelska, 2024
214 kr
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4 Books-In-1! The biggest compilation book of puzzles ever released by Mensa®—the smartest brand in the world! 400 brain-teasers and logic games to keep your mind sharp!Esteemed puzzle master David Millar and American Mensa® have compiled hundreds of logic and problem-solving puzzles in the form of both word and number challenges that will keep you entertained for hours.The range of puzzle types include:MazesSudokuStory logicBlank-filling puzzlesRiddlesAnd more!The hours of brain-training fun will help you improve your memory and exercise those mind-muscles. This book can be used and appreciated by anyone who wants to keep their mind sharp and in tip-top shape—something absolutely everyone will benefit from. - Häftad, Engelska, 2020
170 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2001
312 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2022
314 kr
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- E-bokSpanska, 2016
105 kr
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Cuando en 2004 el ciclista escocés David Millar fue detenido y expulsado de la competición internacional por haber utilizado sustancias ilegales para incrementar su rendimiento, su vida de ensueño se vino abajo. Millar lo perdió todo: un contrato millonario con uno de los principales equipos del pelotón, su estilo de vida en la opulenta ciudad de Biarritz, el apoyo de sus colegas más cercanos e incluso la medalla de oro que había conquistado pocos meses antes en el Mundial.Este es el relato en primera persona de un joven idealista que llegó a la alta competición y, muy pronto, sometido a una gran presión por su entorno, empezó a doparse con EPO, la droga ilegal más extendida en el mundo del ciclismo.Millar, actualmente en activo y reconvertido en un militante contra el dopaje y sus devastadoras consecuencias, construye un fascinante y trepidante retrato del ciclismo profesional y de las presiones, miserias y bajezas que subyacen bajo su superficie.Entre el thriller y el relato confesional más desgarrado y emotivo, "Pedaleando en la oscuridad" ilumina las zonas oscuras del ciclismo y, por extensión, del deporte de élite en general. - Häftad, Engelska, 2023
251 kr
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